{"id":199631,"date":"2025-12-24T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199631\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:19:10","slug":"steven-haskill-45-named-after-motorcycle-crash-on-state-highway-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199631\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Haskill, 45, named after motorcycle crash on State Highway 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>23 Dec, 2025 11:31 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash shortly before 8.30pm on Friday, December 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have released the name of the man who died after a motorcycle crash on State Highway 35 in the Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was 45\u2011year\u2011old Steven Haskell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-on-state-highway-35-near-opotiki\/HSQXM7U4VBGGPHDYH5ICCXJU2A\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-on-state-highway-35-near-opotiki\/HSQXM7U4VBGGPHDYH5ICCXJU2A\/\">The crash<\/a> near \u014cp\u014dtiki was reported to police at 8.25pm on Friday, December 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         At the time, police<br \/>\n         said a \u201cmotorcyclist was critically injured in the crash and tragically passed away a short time later\u201d.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">In a statement today, police extended their condolences, saying their thoughts were with Haskell\u2019s family and loved ones during this difficult time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 23 Dec, 2025 11:31 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64869,43966,74,3549,6179,122811,305,26755,28369,13617,10136,111,43,139,69,90,1562,675,13181,13672,52164],"class_list":["post-199631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-64869","tag-43966","tag-after","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-haskill","tag-have","tag-highway","tag-motorcycle","tag-name","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-plenty","tag-police","tag-released","tag-state","tag-steven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}